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On 12/27/2015 12:55 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> 
> (For the education of the young generation: Multics was an OS of the
> 60s-70s, where everything was organized as "segments" of virtual memory.
> There was a command to list "named segments" (equivalent of files),
> which was naturally named... "ls".)

The name Unix was chosen as being the opposite of Multics.

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